Broiler



Oct. 16,1923. 7 2 1,411,039

A. F. LEE

- Badman Filed June 17 1922 INVENLEH SjIThe' invention will. beshown andde- To all who 1221 it may concern Patented Got. 16, l a

I A E A ER 3; LEE, or CAMBRIDGE; mssrc -r sms BROILEB.

A ipjlieation filed June 17,1192. "Scrialirl'oQ 569,141. s j

: Belt known thatl AL XAND R F. LEE, a.

' citizen ot the United States, residing: at

alloys which'hav'e "a relativelyj lowiusing point. Alum num or aluminumcompose tion is: frequently employed, because of the lightnessfandcheapness of construction and i being easyito keep clean. Whe made ofsuch composition; however; it sometimes bey com s-fused or burned; so;badly as to dest'roy the broiler; ;This fusing is especially 'apt'totake place at the center portion'of a broiler Where it. isexposed' tothe greatest heat, particularly so when the broiler is used a 2;, a 7provide aprotector for that'pjortion of the broiler'which is thusexposedto themost 1novera gas stove.

The ob eat I of the present invention is to tense heat, in such mannerthat the protector will not interferewith the eff ciency ofthe broiler.Y 'r scribed herein as beingembodied inadupleit broiler of skeletonformation, although t is to be understood that the invention is notlimited. to the particular form of broiler =shown'nor to aduplexstylefof bro ler. V The invention will befully 1 understood from thefollowing description, when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawi igsyand the novel ifeaturesfthereof willbe pointed out andclearlydefined. "thejclaims at the-close otthisspecification] 2 n thedrawings, Fig. l is ayertical sectional view of a duplex broilereni-bo'dying the invention; r p v r Figp2rls a plan V ew of the lower grd 7 nieniber to which the protector is applied.

' e Fig. .3

tector before it is a ttached to the grid;

, side of the periphery, and acentral gridis a detail plan iew of thepro Referring now'to thedrawings, A repre sents the lower grid memberand? B [the upper grid member. Y The lower grid meme her A is of spiderformation, consisting of V a disk 1 having-an annulargrooveordepression2 on its upper side around the inv angled ribs.

the gridB to overlie the spaces betweenthe portion formed with ribs,3'having longitudinal, grooves or channels4. Preferably" the gridportion is crowned in the center ,so that there is a slope in-alldirections from the center. The grooves or channels 4 in reach one ofthe ribs 3lead from the highest point of each channel down into theannular a handle 6. The upper frality of rib s 8-;prefera bly of similarformation to: the ribsof the gridA, which are rid jBbislformed Wet-r m;l

i groove or channel 2.-- The arrangement of 7 the channel ribs 8 leavesright angled slots or spaces 5 b etween' the/adjacent right- The gridAis providedrwith formed with channels 9 symmetrically arranged infthesame manner as the ribs of the grid with spaces 10 between the ribs. Theribs 8 are preferably a littlewider than the structied that it may besuperimposedupon' the' lower grid in positionfor the ribs of ibs of thel'lower. grid A j r v U 1 Preferably ns. are provided the g ids may beproperl a entered with s I spaces 5 betweenthe ribs 4; of1the grid Ap'The grid Bis also crowned and so con c I wherebyl r i relation toea'chfother so as to prevent the .u per grid from being rotated touncover the openspacesin the'lower grid. Infthe' construction shown thelower grid 'is rel-med othernear the edg'ejwhich engage with notches inthe'upper grid. The upper during theflbroiling they will for the mostwithupwardlyiextendinglugs 1 1-512, oppoo r grid is supported at somedistanceabove the i lofwer grid byf means of feet 14 to allow freecirculation between theftwo grids. j 1 i V The meat, as shown atC, willbe'placed on the upper grid. lAslthe, juicesjescape 1 part run lintofthe channels of the, upper i into the channel 22' of the lower grid.Juices "which fail to be carried ofi by the 'flcliannels of vtheupper-grid will drip into 'the channels 4 of the lower grid and thencebe carried: into the general channel 201 the lower'' 'id. i I p The heatand flame will pass up through the spaces in the lower gridand thencejbedeflected by the ribs ofthe' upper grid and themeat resting .on theupper grid as well as thoroughly heat the ribs of the grid.

grid, and thence pass outat their'outer ends pass up through the spacesbetween the ribs I of the upper grid to come in contact with It; willberobviousthat where the heat is i concentrated the under side of thelower grid will be exposed to the greatest uheat, and where gas burnersare employed in the usual manner the heat will be concentrated or willbe most intense at the central portion of the lower grid. The special,feature'of i' this invention is to'provide a protector for the undersideof this lower grid of such character and construction that itfwill notinterfere with the proper heating of the grrid nor interfere with thepassage of the v flame and heat to the upper and to the 5 meat.

this end, therefore, I provide a protector device Drwhich' is attachedto the lower grid In the form shown this protector. device consists of adisk or plate 17,

which has acoefficient of fusion sufficiently h gh sothat there is nodangerwhatever of its. fusing under any degree of heat that the broileris li rely to be sub ect'ed'to'. Preterablythis protector should beagood conduct tor of heat. Thislprotectorshould also be so constructedasto not interfere with the passage of the fiame between the ribs of thelower grid. For that reason the disk s formed withislots 18 whichregister with the slots between the ribs 3 of the lower grid.

7 For convenience and simplicity of con- 7 Y struction the protector Dis'attacliedto the ribs of the grid A by means of fingers 19 3 "whichare {formed integrally with the protector disk D. The disk is firstformed with these fingers19 extendin'gupward, as shown r in-Figure 3,the'iingers being'of malleable metal, so that when thedisk is properlypo- I fsit ioned centrally onth'e under side of the i 7 lower grid thesaidfingersmay bebent over so as tofhook onito the upper side of'the"The protector maybe easily detached from the grid at any timebystraightening fout"the hooked endsiof said fingers,so that 1 it by anychance the protector should .be-

. I come destroyed or forfany reason it should bode/sired toattach. anew one, it can be readily done without injuring in anyway whatever thegrid itself; :gIn that way, even though the. protector should be ofequally fusiblemctalas the grid 'and should become burned outyit wouldcost very little tofreplace itby .a newone, thussaVingtheeX pense of'anentirely new grid.

- yfBv reference to Figure 2, which shows th eflowergrid,itiwill beobserved that four of the slots" 5 between the ribs are radial slotswhich intersect at the center forming an open space 20 at theintersection which is also the-center of the grid, whereas in the uppergrid the ribs intersect at the center, .as shown in'Figure 1. Oneobjection to having the ribs of the lower grid intersect at the'centeris, that, as the grid is exposed to the greatest heat at the center ifthe ribs intersect so that there are four ribsintegral witheach other,branching away from the center, theyare likely to crack at their polntof intersection during the expansion and contraction. Bymaking the openspace at the center, this danger-is avoided as the flame goesthrough theopen space instead of against the metaLflAnother objection to havingintersecting ribs in the piace'oi": the intersecting slots, is thatby'having metal in the center, it would interfere with the passing' or"the heat {up through theintersecting, slots 18 of the protector 17 tothe upper grid.

Itwill fbe noted that as constructed, the radial, intersecting slots ofthelower grid reg ister with the radiating slots 18 of the'protector. YI I r What I'claim 1. 'A broiler having a' grid formed with ribs andopen spaces between'the ribs, and a heat protector of much smallerdiameter than the grid attached to the under side of the middle of thegrid, said heat protector being formed with slots which register. with"the open spaces bctw'e'enthe ribs of the grid.

. 2. A broiler having a grid member formed with ribs and open spacesbetween the ribs, and a heat protector consisting of a metallic disk ofmuch smaller diameter than the grid secured to the ribs of said grid insuch manner as to be positioned beneath the middle of the grid said diskbeing formed .with slots which register with the'spaces be- ALEXANDER r.LEE.

